Events

Social cohesion can be elusive. When it’s working you don’t notice it, but when it’s lacking, the problems created by its absence become obvious. 

As the foundation of and for all of Cambridge, we see social cohesion in our community every day. It happens through the tireless work of nonprofits addressing urgent needs and protecting the values we hold dear. It happens through neighbors helping neighbors, and through the arts, sports, and community activities that offer spaces and places that welcome us all.  

In this exhibition we present moments of joy and solidarity, as well as isolation, in our community captured by Cambridge-based photographer Mark Ostow. We also share some of the everyday people who are local changemakers – people who foster our community’s sense of belonging and make good for their neighbors every day. 

We need them both -- social cohesion and changemakers – if we’re going to address the city’s most pressing problems with the big ideas and big hearts that make Cambridge so special. 

The Cambridge Community Foundation harnesses the power of collective action to ensure a vibrant, just, and equitable city for everyone. It has made social cohesion and economic mobility the pillars of a new strategic plan to address the city’s most pressing problems. Both are fundamental to a healthy civic society, and they’re inextricably linked. To advance economic mobility, we must support one another; to have social cohesion, we must create a path forward for the most vulnerable among us. 

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